Re: Problems with running TSM and Netbackup on the same machine

2002-08-12 Thread Ray Pratts
I've had experience with TSM together with Legato and Backup Exec. In both cases TSM always backed up every file after a Legato or Backup Exec backup. I expect you'll see the same behavior after a Netbackup backup. "Barkhordar,Gentille,GLENDALE,IS" wrote: > My client is currently in the process

Re: Where are the TSM 5.1 error message books?

2002-08-12 Thread Ray Pratts
try: http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/StorageManagerMessages5.1.html "MC Matt Cooper (2838)" wrote: > Does anyone know where the TSM 5.1 error message books are.I can only > find the QUICK START, ADMIN GUIDE and ADMIN REFERENCE books. > Matt

Re: LTO Tape keeps ejecting

2002-08-12 Thread Ray Pratts
It's not a cleaning cartridge, is it? Michael Loggins wrote: > I have a Dell PowerVault 110T Tape Drive. Every time it tries to mount a tape > it kicks it back out? Anyone had this problem? > > Michael Loggins > Technical Analyst > Horine and Associates, LLC > T: 317/684-2160 > F: 317/684-217

Re: Export form AIX server to Sun Server

2002-08-02 Thread Ray Pratts
I just used export/import to move a server from AIX to W2K. I did not get the storage pools , but that may be because I did not have the device classes named the same. I also did not get the scripts. But all other definitions came across. I did not export files because this would have take too

Re: multiple scratch pools on 1 TSM server instance - 1 public,1 private - is it possible ?

2002-07-17 Thread Ray Pratts
Kent, Use define volume to assign the volumes to the tape and copy pools. Then check in the tapes as private. Also set these particular tape and copy pools to MAXSCRatch=0. Regards, Ray Pratts Kent Monthei wrote: > We have a 3494 Tape Library. A new client is providing a substant

Re: dsmserv restore db of a database backup file.

2002-07-16 Thread Ray Pratts
If there is only one volume use COMMIT=Y . If you have multiple volumes use COMMIT=N on all but the last volume. DSMSERV RESTORE DB DEV=device_class_name VOL=volume_name COMMIT=Y Regards, Ray Pratts Justin Bleistein wrote: > Could someone please send me the syntax of the "dsmserv

Re: Need TSM 3.7

2002-07-11 Thread Ray Pratts
Peter, I would greatly appreciate you setting it up on ftp. I tried the servcie.boulder site, but that only has upgrades to the base 3.7. Ray Pratts Senior Systems Engineer Mark III Systems, Inc 6575 West Loop South, Suite 675 Bellaire, TX 77401 713-664-9850 ext. 29

Re: Need TSM 3.7

2002-07-11 Thread Ray Pratts
My IBM rep was the first person I contacted. However, since TSM 3.7 is no longer an availabel product, my rep has not been able to help, as of yet. I have the license but not the media. The AIX CD is the only one we cannot find. Ray Pratts Senior Systems Engineer Mark III Systems, Inc 6575

Need TSM 3.7

2002-07-10 Thread Ray Pratts
Can I obtain TSM 3.7 Server for AIX. I have a system that I was about to upgrade to TSM 5.1. Well crashed and I need to restore the TSM database with 3.7 before I can upgrade. Any ideas. Thanks. Ray Pratts Senior Systems Engineer Mark III Systems, Inc 6575 West Loop South, Suite 675

How to unsubscribe

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Pratts
You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF ADSM-L" command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]). George Cardoza wrote: > Help, how do I get off of this mailing list??

Re: process will not end...

2002-01-31 Thread Ray Pratts
Once a process begins which requires a tape that TSM "thinks" is available, that process will not end until the tape is mounted. I'm assuming that the tape was checked out with out using the MOVE command. When you have DRM use the MOVE command to checkout your tapes. If the tape is onsite, simp

Re: ? BUFPOOLSIZE limit under TSM4.1 / NT

2001-04-19 Thread Ray Pratts
According to the 4.1 Admin. Reference, "The maximum value is limited by available virtual memory size." sal Salak Juraj wrote: hallo, I have purchased upgrade from TSM Server 3.1.7 under NT 4 to newest TSM server version. There is limitation of BufPoolSize to max. 65536 in my current system. I ho

Defining IBM 3583 as a SCSI device under Windows 2000

2001-04-11 Thread Ray Pratts
I searched ADSM-L the last few days and did not find instructions on how to define an IBM 3583 as a SCSI device under Windows 2000.  Here is how I got it to work. 1. Disable the Removable Storage (a.k.a. RSM) service 2. Install TSM 4.1.3.  Note: Read the readme files.  You must first remove TSM b

Re: Urgent!!! transferring adsm server into new machine

2001-04-06 Thread Ray Pratts
I've had to do this several times. The only other consideration is any storage pools containing disk volume. I've found that the easiest way to handle these have been to move the data to a tape storage pool. The documentation for the dsmserv command is in Appendix A of the Tivoli Storage Manage

Daylight Savings Fix for Windows NT Clients

2001-03-28 Thread Ray Pratts
The Tivoli® Storage Manager Products Technical Support page (http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/adsercli.htm) has the following notice: NOTICE Daylight Savings Fix for Windows NT Before April 1st, Tivoli Storage Manager 4.1 and 3.7 client users for Windows NT must apply the following fixt

Re: How long will be backup task finished ?

2001-03-02 Thread Ray Pratts
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Re: How long will be backup task finished ?

2001-02-28 Thread Ray Pratts
The 15MB/sec natively (30 MB/sec compressed) rates apply to the tapes streaming speed. The actual speed under TSM has been shown to be 12.8 MB/second uncompressed and 15.3 MB/second with 3:1 compression. These numbers come form an IBM LTO Ultrium Performance Consulting Report date: August 23, 20

Re: Formula to calculate # tapes required

2001-02-15 Thread Ray Pratts
Take a look at the redbook Getting Started with Tivoli Storage Manager: Implementation Guide. It tells you how to calculate the number of tapes. " " wrote: > Does any one out there have a formula they use to calculate the number of > tapes they will use for an instance of TSM > I've tried to s

Re: I realy need your help

2001-02-13 Thread Ray Pratts
KEY=03 ASC=11, ASCQ=00 indicate a read error on the tape. Recently I had a client that was experiencing this on a 3575 library after having the library upgraded for the higher capacity tapes. The cause was a bug in the microcode. A fix to the microcode helped. Saad Al-Sakran wrote: > Hi All

Re: DB2/2 Backup and Policy

2001-02-09 Thread Ray Pratts
DB2 backups as with most database backups are not deleted by directly by *SM. us the DB2 utility db2adutl to delete the backups and log archives. Gerhard Wolkerstorfer wrote: > Hi *SMer, > one of our customers is making a backup of his DB2/2 V6.1 database once a day > and his files (One Backup

Re: Latest Atape driver for 3590 E11

2001-02-06 Thread Ray Pratts
You can find Atape at ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/devdrvr/ "Ganu Sachin, IBM" wrote: > >From where I can download latest Atape driver for 3590 E11 ?

Re: *SM server abend

2001-02-05 Thread Ray Pratts
Richard, Where is the APAR database? Thanks. Richard Sims wrote: > >ANRD Invalid condition object at 0 - magic number mismatch; > > Peter - Searching the APAR database for "magic number mismatch" > turns up APAR IY14257. Have a look at that. > You may be able to avoid if circumsta

Re: LTO PERFORMANCE with TSM

2001-02-01 Thread Ray Pratts
I've seen these LTO test results TSM backup/restore operations with a large (256 MB) file size of data that does not benefit from compression (e.g. video, audio, and image files) Backup 12.8 MBs / second Restore 14.7 MBs / second Backup/restore operations with large files which benefit

Re: saving a bad tape...

2001-01-30 Thread Ray Pratts
I've heard that IBM has a service in San Jose that will recover data from damaged media. "Vraspir, Mary J." wrote: > Hi all, > Does anyone know of a data recovery house that has 'cracked' the ADSM > encryption. I have a bad tape (only copy) from which I want to recover > the data. > Move data

Re: DB2 Backups

2001-01-17 Thread Ray Pratts
Eric, It is correct that the user exit does not get the currently active log. I'm not sure that backing up the currently active log is useful. It may be in an inconsistent state. This will result in the ROLLFORWARD DATABASE failing. Which will require that you restore the database and rollforw

Re: DB2 Backups

2001-01-16 Thread Ray Pratts
The logs are not picked up by the backup. The method of handling the logs, is to compile C language the user exit program provided by DB2 to archive (not backup) the log files. "Collins, Brenda" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > When you are backing up DB2, do the logs get picked up with the database

Re: ADSM and Legato compatibility

2001-01-12 Thread Ray Pratts
My memory is of a project about three years ago. A client was migrating from Legato to ADSM and left Legato on the systems for a while, until they got used to ADSM. What I remenber is, Legato changed attribute flags every time it ran, this caused ADSM to backup files which had not actually chang

Re: Which table shows mounts

2001-01-12 Thread Ray Pratts
Doesn't look like that information is kept in a table. I look also and do not see it in the table definitions. Kai G Hintze wrote: > ADSM 3.1.2 on aix 4.1.5 > > Which table holds mount information? I have looked and looked but I just can't > see it. I see drive information, but it doesn't say w

Re: index

2001-01-11 Thread Ray Pratts
I like to use: http://search.adsm.org/ "Remeta, Mark" wrote: > could someone please email me the URL to search the adsm archives... I > can't seem to find it anywhere..Thanks in advance,Mark Remeta > Seligman Data Corp. > 100 Park Avenue > New York, NY 10017

No Subject

2001-01-04 Thread Ray Pratts
It used to be there. I did find an on line HTML version at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr/LIBRARY. Toni Banire wrote: > I've looked there, can't find it > > Toni

Re: unsubscribe

2001-01-02 Thread Ray Pratts
Kevin, To leave the list send a "SIGNOFF ADSM-L" command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]). "Groetken, Kevin" wrote: > Kevin Groetken

Re: Performance tuning.

2001-01-02 Thread Ray Pratts
Marco, I've not been able to find a Performance Tuning guide. However the Redbook: "Getting Started with Tivoli Storage Manager: Implementation Guide , SG24-5416-01" does have a paragraph titled "Performance considerations". You can find it at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ Marco Supino wrote: >

Re: Clients for Win9X etc costing money ?

2000-12-31 Thread Ray Pratts
Although the clients can be downloaded for free, you are required to buy a license for each client that is backed up. IBM and Tivoli have never done a good job of making this clear. Some software providers either do not know this or choose to ignore it when making proposals. Mike Glassman - Ad

Re: Tivoli Certification for TSM v4.1

2000-12-12 Thread Ray Pratts
Ken, I am both ADSM 2.1 and TSM 3.7 certified, plus I have several AIX certifications. The 4.1 objectives are the same as for 3.7. I can tell you that the 3.7 test was not designed for just TSM administration experience. Although, day to day administration is a plus, customer requirements and s

Re: ANR9999D bfcreate.c(1799)

2000-12-12 Thread Ray Pratts
My experience has been that once I cleared up the cause of the problem, as in a tape drive error, that the ANRD messages did not reoccur. Once the ANRD occurred without any other obvious errors and working with support I found that I need a patch. I suggest you fix the tape drive error a

Re: Recovering an AIX Server to a different server type.

2000-12-05 Thread Ray Pratts
Neil, What you want to do is called cloning. You can get instructions on how to do this at http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/rs6k/techbrowse/. Once there click on your OS level, type the word clone in filter selected categories and click on the filter button. For example for AIX 4.2 and 4.

Re: backup stgpool fails..

2000-12-01 Thread Ray Pratts
One cause can be that the copypool maxscratch limit has been reached. The maxscratch sets the maximum number of scratch volume that can be used by the stroage pool. Shekhar Dhotre wrote: > Hi all, > TSM creates daily copypool(offsite) tapes for me , with command backup > stgpool tapepool

Re: DRM Module

2000-11-30 Thread Ray Pratts
There is not a fileset. DRM is a activated by registering the license. Gerald Wichmann wrote: > In order to use DRM (TSM 4.1, AIX 4.3.3), where is the appropriate DRM > module fileset located (i.e. which CD?). > > Thanks, > > Gerald Wichmann > Systems Engineer > Sansia System Solutions > 408-84